Tuesday, 24 March 2015

EGG is the theme this week for the Three Muses challenge and that reminded me of the strange incident that happened a week last Tuesday. One minute 'him in doors' was clearing up the garden in readiness for Spring and the next he was up to his eyes in egg! Answers on a postcard if you work out how this could have happened!

Credit to Graphicsfuel.com for the egg, to Pngimg.com for the bird and spoon, the hands are courtesy of Bluesse, the backgrounds (blended) are LizWest (flickr), and the tree was Googled.

Sunday, 22 March 2015

TULIP is our word for inspiration this week at Take a Word. Here in the UK we have carpets of crocuses and snowdrops and even daffodils but it's still too early for tulips ... so come on Spring its time for you to come out and play.

Credit to CAJoline and GrannyArt for the bottles, flowers and 'Spring', the background is one of my own.

Sunday, 8 March 2015

We are looking forward to SPRING at Take a Word this week and that made me think of Spring flowers and in particular Dandelions. As soon as Spring starts and all through the Summer they spring up everywhere and like Triffids they advance across our gardens, public greens and meadows in a never ending search for more. First juicy yellow flowers and then white Dandelion clocks whose sole aim is to populate more of our earth. And they seem almost indestructible ... thank goodness! Well, at least the bees (if they could talk) might say thank goodness for the sight and taste of a sweet and sustaining Dandelion feast! :D

Credit to Gustav Klimt and to the talented contributors of images to Pixabay (public domain).

A couple of recent pieces created for the DIGITALMANIA challenge across
at Flickr. This week our challenge was MAIL ART and last week our
inspiration came from SOFTLY SURREAL. Credits are available on my
Flickr page.

Sunday, 1 March 2015

We have FEATHERED FRIENDS as our word for inspiration this week at TAKE A WORD. When I began to think about what direction I would take this I thought about combining text and birds which I tried several times without success. Not wanting to start again totally I added and blended layers one at a time until the collage began to take shape. I kept the original text layer (a copy of the Magna Carta to be precise) and softened it, then added a photo of tree branches reflected in a puddle of water I had taken a year or two ago (I knew that photo was a keeper) ... and that's when it began to take shape. One or two more layers and a change or two to the birds and I was happy!!!

Credit : the birds and the text and several of the layers were all free to use, whilst the remainder were from my own stock.